naive question: housekeeper duties and agreements
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Anonymous
| we have had an individual come to our house to clean once a week - there aren't set hours, she cleans until she's done for a set fee. I keep seeing posts about housekeepers with available hours. How do those arrangements work? Does the housekeeper come a couple times a week for a couple hours? What are their responsibilities? How does that work? what is a typical hourly rate? |
Anonymous
| What are you wanting to find? |
Anonymous
| I'm wondering how an hourly arrangement works. What are the duties? Instead of a weekly clean, are they cleaning in smaller doses, tidying, doing personal laundry? Running errands? |
Anonymous
| This is the nanny forum. Two separate professions. |
Anonymous
| It just means they have time to take on more customers. |
Anonymous
Most nannies are housekeepers that supervise children on the side. |
Anonymous
Maybe if you are still living in 1950. Most nannies do NO general housework -- only things related to the children in her care (their laundry, cleaning their rooms). You are on the wrong forum, OP. |
Anonymous
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I have a housekeeper 20 hours/wk and 25 hours every other week. Here was a rough breakdown of what I wanted her to do when she was hired (I had 3 kids ages 3, 2, and 6 mos at the time...this was 3 years ago).
Every other week, deep cleaning: 5 hours Weekly: 1) Clean kitchen daily (including dishes) – (45 minutes/day) 3 hours 2) Laundry – 9 loads a week (wash, dry, put away) – (25 minutes/load) 4 hours 3) Ironing – 1 hour 4) Cooking – 3 hours 5) Groceries (purchasing, putting away, washing and chopping fruits and veggies) – 2 hours 6) Pick up/vaccuum playroom daily – 2 hours 7) General tidying – 1 hour 20 minutes 8) Sweep back patio twice a week – 40 minutes 9) Sweep sidewalk and clean front porch and outside doors twice a week– 40 minutes 10) Pull weeds around the driveway and sidewalk – 30 minutes 11) Vacuum bedrooms and downstairs living room weekly- 1 hour 12) Sweep and straighten up dining room daily – 40 minutes |
Anonymous
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Oh, and I paid her $11/hr initially. Now I pay $14/hr. I don't live in DC though. You may need to start out a little higher.
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Anonymous
Wow. I'm a "MB" but that's insane. Fairly certain you're a troll but I hope good nannies on here don't think most normal people think this. |
Anonymous
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Housekeeper doesn't equal nanny, but I think this is a natural place for the question, since as household employees there are a lot of practical similarities to their employment, if not their job duties. Plus, a hybrid job nanny/housekeeper is very legitimate and does exist.
Anyhow, we used to have a nanny and now we have an hourly housekeeper. FOr us, the key was finding someone very self sufficient and self motivated. We pay $20/hr for 12 hours/wk spread over 3 days. The great part is we don't have to micromanage, but, if we have a specific need or task, she can just shift other things around to accomodate. We have the general understanding that cleaning is never "done" and never perfect. And we found someone who gets an amazing amount done in her hours, yet always finds something to do. She always gets the laundry done, changes linens weekly, cleans the kitchen daily, vacuums, dusts, and does bathrooms weekly. She fits in ovens, fridge, organzing drawers. She even asked us if she could give the dog a midday walk for 20 minutes, which we thought was fabulous. On her end, the benefits are a steady income (guarenteed hours and PTO), flexibility for fitting in other jobs, and a certain level of autonomy she wouldn't have with a housekeeping service. |
Anonymous
You actually have your housecleaner pull weeds? |
Anonymous
| Troll |